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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Tonnie – You said, “The
research has the form of a field study on the phenomenon </span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>LSI</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>, its working
elements and its effects. So, my focus is on the philosophy for the
change process, not on one specific method. However, OST plays an important
role in this research and I hope I am in the right place here.” Be
assured – you are definitely in the right place, for as we all know, “Whoever
come is the right people.” You’re here --- so you have to be right!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>And you may even have the right question.
It is not about methods (OS, AI, FS, etc, etc)—it is about what they do
and why/how they do it. And the answer is ???</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Open Space Training</span></font><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.org</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Personal website</span></font><font
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Tonnie van der Zouwen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 02, 2009
10:05 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSLIST] Action
Research</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Hi
everyone, </span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Finally
found the time to participate on the OSList. Sorry for my late response on the
research topic. </span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><font size=2
color="#1f497d" face="Planet Benson 2"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Planet Benson 2";color:#1F497D'>I am pleased to be connected to
other researchers in the field of OS and cooperative inquiry. Jamie, Christie,
Sirin thank </span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>you for your
information. Did not know the term CI.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>I
am a self-employed consultant and connected to Tilburg University for my PhD as
an un-paid researcher (“buitenpromovendus” in Dutch). My main
questions are “What are the effects of Large Scale Interventions (LSI),
when is it worth the effort, what are the conditions for sustainable change?”.
I see LSI as an approach for change, defined by participation, systems
thinking, action learning and methods for working with “the whole system
in the room”, such as OST, World Café, Real Time Strategic Change and
Future Search. The research has the form of a field study on the phenomenon
LSI, its working elements and its effects. </span></font><font size=2
color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Planet Benson 2"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Planet Benson 2";color:#1F497D'>So, my focus is on the philosophy
for the change process, not on one specific method. </span></font><font size=2
color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:#1F497D'>However, OST plays an important role in this research and I hope
I am in the right place here. </span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>My
goal is, besides earning my degree somewhere in 2010 </span></font><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>,
to develop a sort of “information leaflet” to get more grip on
conditions for success and what effects can be expected, especially sustainable
(learning) effects in institutions/organizations. </span></font><font size=2
color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Planet Benson 2"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Planet Benson 2";color:#1F497D'>I have used Open Space as a
research method during Global Conferences of the Future Search Network and of
the Society for Organizational Learning to explore what</span></font><font
size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:#1F497D'> practioners think about conditions, effects, and to
gather information about research papers and contacts. Combined with an
extensive literature study on documented LSI cases (of course also from Open
Spaces) and some interviews, this resulted in a first draft of an evaluation
instrument for LSIs. </span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><font size=2
color="#1f497d" face="Planet Benson 2"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Planet Benson 2";color:#1F497D'>Now I am refining the instrument
and preparing a case study with a reconstruction of 4 LSI-cases (performed more
than a year ago, some successful, some not so successful), to test the
evaluation instrument and l</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>earn
more about observable effects. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>If
you are interested in the research design or what and how I have done so far,
please visit <a href="http://www.tonnievanderzouwen.nl/wiki">www.tonnievanderzouwen.nl/wiki</a>.
You are invited to contribute to this research wiki, with comments,
information, discussion …When the case study is completed I want to
organize an Open Space conference to discuss, verify and validate my findings,
end of August 2009 (date is not set yet). With thanks to Gerard Muller who suggested
this idea during an OS on OS he organized in 2007. Possibly a life OS in
combination with an online OS. If you are interested to participate, please let
me know. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>For
me there is no doubt if OS works, under the right conditions and well
performed, but what has to be done to bring sustainable change (a claim often
made in literature about LSI)? And what is sustainable change exactly? What are
people doing they could not do before? How can that be observed? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>What
do you think of this research? </span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Greetings
and a very good 2009, </span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color="#1f497d"
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Tonnie</span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Van:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Namens
</span></b>Chris Corrigan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Verzonden:</span></b> zaterdag 6 decem</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>ber
2008 7:04<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Aan:</span></b>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Onderwerp:</span></b> Re: [OSLIST] Action
Research</span></font></p>
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.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nice
to see all of my British Columbian friends coming out of the wood work!<br>
<br>
Chris</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Diamond
Christie <<a href="mailto:diamondc17@mac.com">diamondc17@mac.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></p>
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lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Just checking in on this topic. Sirin
mentioned Cooperative Inquiry (CI), and I had the opportunity to participate in
a "bootstrap" CI (no one in the group had any previous experience
with CI) during my masters process, and I would agree with Sirin's comments:
there is no distinction necessary between researchers and participants, and
because it has action and reflection stages as part of the process, it allows
the inquiry to be fluid throughout the research phase. (We met in person to
begin with, but because our 'action sites' spanned 2 countries & 4 time
zones, we then used a combination of conference calls, Skype, & on-line
journalling to connect with each other during the reflection phases.)
Also, because there is space for the findings to include both informative
and transformative aspects, it suits different peoples' preferences for
reporting on the experience. In our group, we were able to combine art,
photography, and poetry with more analytical writing. In the end, we
realized that the informative summary lead to transformation, and the transformative
summary lead to new information (go figure!). Four CI's were presented
collectively at the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry:
(theme - Ethics, Evidence & Social Justice) </span></font><font
size=1 face=Helvetica><span lang=NL style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><a
href="http://www.icqi.org/qi2008/" target="_blank">http://www.icqi.org/qi2008/</a>
</span></font><font size=4 face=STSong><span lang=NL style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:STSong'>. Many of the students did choose CI for the
masters or doctoral work. Although I did not use Open Space for my
masters, I did use World Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry & Circle in an
organization to explore leadership through hosting meaningful conversations
(thanks to discovering the Art of Hosting), and was pleased with how the
process worked - for the organization, me personally, and for meeting my
learning goals.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jamie, I think there are fantastic options for
your learning, community, and projects - keep us posted on your progress!</span></font></p>
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lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Christie</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>PS - I found both The Change Handbook &
the Handbook of Action Research to be significantly helpful resources!</span></font></p>
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lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 5-Dec-08, at 5:21 PM, Nancy McPhee wrote:</span></font></p>
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face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:maroon'>Jamie, I used os as the action research tool for my MALT thesis
– Opening Space for Community Conversations: Building for the Future. You
can find it online at the RRU library. I did one day, with no action day. The
community where I live is living with a difficult conflict situation and this
research was my attempt to give people a space to start talking. Curious thing
is that 3 years after I did the research, we may be actually able to start
doing circling again!</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'> OSLIST [mailto:<a
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Corrigan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 05 December 2008 15:10<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <a
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSLIST] Action
Research</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'>All you folks doing academic research on OS...we've been
chasing this for a few years now and trying to get bits and pieces of research
organized and in some cases even conducted on OST. I know there is lots
of it happening and in my fantasy world it would be gathered and linked in one
place. <br>
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So we have that place, at <a href="http://openspaceworld.org"
target="_blank">openspaceworld.org</a>: <a
href="http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?ResearchActivities" target="_blank">http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?ResearchActivities</a>
where some research has alrady been collected. A few years ago Larry
Peterson, Peggy Holman and I tried to do some research but it never really
caught on.<br>
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Bottom line is that if you guys - Jamie, Sirin and others - start talking and
discovering other research that is done, or somehow you begin a series of
conversations about this topic, it would be great if you could share the
results and buttress the OST academic research component in the world.<br>
<br>
Also Jamie, I'm in BC and most of my work is with Aboriginal communities
in Canada, and I'd be very interested to talk to you about a few
initiatives that I have going on that needs someone who can lend a research eye
to using Open Space for community governance. We even have some SSHRC
money available for someone who would help us look at action based governance
models for urban Aboriginal communities, stemming out of work we did
in Prince George BC four years ago. There is a post at my
blog which is an invitation to academic researchers:<a
href="http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1796" target="_blank">http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=1796</a> <br>
<br>
Let's talk!<br>
<br>
Chris</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>On Fri, Dec
5, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Sirin Bernshausen <<a
href="mailto:Sirin.Bernshausen@web.de" target="_blank">Sirin.Bernshausen@web.de</a>>
wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Hello Jamie,<br>
<br>
I am sorry for the delayed reply, but I really wanted to add my perspective to
the discussion on Open Space and action research.<br>
<br>
For my PhD I am using a systemic action research (SAR) approach which I am
particularly fond of because emergence and intuition are built into the
research process. Several strands of inquiry are pursued alongside. Different
kinds of knowledge experiential, analytical, etc. are co-generated
among researcher and research participants. Evidence can come in various forms,
including maps, stories, statistics, images, film or questionnaires. It just
makes so much sense to combine systemic thinking with action research.
Similarly, I am not interested in doing research just for its own sake. I
prefer to conduct a form of research that contributes to increased knowledge
and understanding of an issue while enhancing social transformation and whole
system change.<br>
<br>
Since my research still is in its early stages and because of its emergent
nature I cannot say an awful lot about the details yet. However, in a nutshell,
I explore ways of enhancing attitude/behaviour change and facilitating
resilience management in the context of climate change/peak oil. Initiatives
like Transition Towns are use Open Space in order to engage people and plan for
local resilience and energy descent. Danny Burns, author of Systemic
Action Research, explicitly mentions Open Space, World Café and similar
large-scale events for developing action inquiry strands that may
run alongside or even develop into major inquiry streams. Large-scale events
are particularly useful for opening up new inquiry questions, testing resonance
of issues (whether they are sufficiently relevant to deserve further
investigation), to generate a systemic (i.e. diverse, multi-faceted) picture of
views and opinions and to tap the collective wisdom present within a system.<br>
For my own research, I plan to use Open Space mainly for generating new issues
and for resonance testing. In addition to Open Space I carry out
semi-structured in-depth interviews with change agents , explore public
perceptions of global uncertainties and experiment with different workshop
designs.<br>
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Besides my PhD research I am also involved in a cooperative inquiry process
a variant of action research where we map and reflect on the
scope, nature and impact of conversations people have about vulnerability
and resilience . What I like about cooperative inquiry (and action
research in general) is that it is a participatory methodology which respects
the agency and intelligence of individuals as capable researchers rather than
viewing research as the preserve of trained professionals. In my opinion, this
corresponds very much with the basic premises underlying Open Space and similar
methods. This type of inquiry can at times be rather cumbersome and it may not
produce the type of hard factual knowledge that conventional
(positivist) researchers like to see. Yet this isn t necessarily a bad thing -
findings may be more ambiguous but they are very rich and (in my view) much
more in line with reality and how people make sense of the world.
Plus, doing an Open Spac!<br>
e on, say, energy descent may generate valuable insights into people s
thoughts and degree of awareness, while simultaneously changing people s views
and attitudes. I thus hope to both enhance and document positive social change.<br>
<br>
For my MA thesis I have explored Open Space as a form of conflict resolution
(i.e. I just wrote about Open Space but I did not put it into practice -
something I'd certainly do differently today!). Jamie - I'd be very
interested to learn more about your ideas and the evolution of your research
...<br>
<br>
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Cheers, Sirin<br>
<br>
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Betreff: [OSLIST] Action Research Von: Jamie Snook <<a
href="mailto:jamiesnook@YAHOO.COM" target="_blank">jamiesnook@YAHOO.COM</a>><br>
An: <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> Datum:
28.11.08 14:27:28 Uhr</span></font></p>
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Hi Everyone,<br>
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I am new to this list. I am a MA candidate
from Royal Roads University in<br>
Conflict Analysis and Management. The ideas of systems thinking are less<br>
that 6 months old to me and recently I took the step of hosting a staff<br>
systems retreat for 25 staff members of the Labrador Metis Nation where I<br>
am the General Manager.<br>
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We used Appreciative Inquiry, World Cafe and of course Open Space. The<br>
results were great and outside the scope of this email. I am just curious<br>
to see how well this Listserv works.<br>
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I'd be interested to hear views from people on the use of Open Space to<br>
conduct thesis and or PHD research. I have ideas for my MA thesis and<br>
thinking Open Space might be a fun way to do the research.<br>
<br>
I am also wondering if anyone is conducting Open Space sessions or events<br>
online using forums or other technology?<br>
<br>
Thank you :-)<br>
<br>
Jamie</span></font></p>
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